3forbidding marriage and commanding to abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
4For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
5For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.
6If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.
7But refuse profane and old wives` fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.
8For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value for all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
9This saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance.
